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(CW: War, Gore) US Army Col. makes disturbing claims about NATO 5.56 ammunition and uses an even more disturbing anecdote
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In this episode of What the Fuck America, a retired army kernel goes head to head with a lifelong fed. Colonel Tucker declares before the court that...
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...NATO 5.56 and/or (?) 0.223 caliber ammo can decapitate or split the upper body from the lower in a single shot. To support this claim, he makes up a story about a marine and then describes the Iraqi children he saw torn in half.
Did this hero just self report? It also turns out that your average lifelong war criminal doesn't really even need to know how guns work lmao
If he's a Marine he's probably referring to MARSOC, which issued 1911s as standard long after the Corps itself had switched to 9mm. IDK what they issue nowadays though.
MARSOC is pretty much in line with other special operations units now, but honestly you’d be surprised how many units used 1911s back then because it was tacticool